Competition in Focus

Competition in Focus

Competitionin focus The Supreme Court of India upheld the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme on September 26, 2018 but imposed some restrictions on its use. The Supreme' Court observed that Aadhaar was meant to help the benefits reach the marginalised sections of society. Competitionin focus The bench sdid the scheme takes into account the dignity of people not only from personal but from the communitypoint of view as well and served the much bigger public interest. As a follow-up of the Supreme Court verdict, Competitionin focus the UIDAI made it clear in its communication to telecom services provides that they could no longer ash for Aadhaar number to issue new SIM cards or reverification of existing ones. The Supreme Court allowed linking of Aadhaar with Permanent Account 'Number' (PAN), Competition in focus which is mandatory for filing of income tax return (ITR). In other words, the court upheld the legality of Section 139AA of the Income-tax Act. The court upheld the 139AA even as it struck down a number of other provisions related to Aadhaar and its usage.The Competition in focus A'adhaar verdict was announced -by a five-judge constitution bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AK Sikri, Justice AM Khanwilkar, Competitionin focus Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Ashok Bhushan by a 4 : 1 majority.In his concurring decision, Justice Competition in focusBhushan clarified that the antral government had given sufficient reasons to uphold Section 7 of Aadhaar Act, which deals with grant of subsidies and welfare benefits (for 430 'Nana of state and central government). Competition in focus